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bug#30070: 27.0.50; cl-print sometimes prints self-referencing objects a
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Stefan Monnier |
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bug#30070: 27.0.50; cl-print sometimes prints self-referencing objects as #1=#<thing> |
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Wed, 10 Jan 2018 15:39:46 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> That gives me "#1=#<thing>". That's weird because the printed
> representation of the thing doesn't refer to itself.
Yes, it's a known misfeature (to me at least). I don't know how we
could fix it, tho: the cycle-detection is done in a preprocessing phase
which doesn't know about any print format (nor about cl-print), so by
the time we learn the the object will be printed as "#<thing>", we have
already printed "#1=".
To fix it, I have the impression that we'd have to make cl-print a lot
more complex, and potentially its API as well (e.g. add a matching
cl-preprocess method additionally to cl-print-object).
Stefan